AI-Driven Lab Robotics & Simulation Engineer

Xaira Therapeutics, Inc.; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership of robotics and simulation

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Access to advanced robotics platforms

Mentorship and growth

Job summary

Xaira Therapeutics, Inc. is hiring a Robotics Systems & Simulation Engineer to bridge digital environments with physical robotics. You will own the simulation and digital-twin infrastructure, enabling vision-guided robots to adapt quickly to new instruments and test robotics control, perception, and embodied AI.

This on-site role spans software, 3D geometry, simulation, and hardware. You will collaborate with robotics, AI, software, and automation engineers to develop integrated systems from

Qualifications

• Degree in CS/Robotics/EE/ME or related field; recent grads welcome.
• Experience developing and debugging integrated apps in Linux.
• Hands-on experience with robotics simulations or digital twins.

Responsibilities

• Build integrated Real2Sim and Sim2Real workflows across robotic platforms and labs.
• Create and validate digital twins from CAD, robot and sensor models, including coordinates and collision geometry.
• Connect simulation, perception, motion planning and execution through the robot control stack; analyze sim vs real discrepancies.
• Integrate AI models and task-level state machines with simulation and robotic tools; manage execution feedback.
• Develop synthetic data, video/telemetry capture, replay and evaluation tools.
• Benchmark system accuracy, latency, GPU usage; optimize for local and cloud environments.
• Collaborate with software engineers on reusable configurations and operator tools; validate new installations.
• Work with scientists to integrate capabilities, debug hardware, and document architecture and SOPs.

Skills

Python

C++

C#

Linux development

Robotics simulations

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in CS/Robotics/EE/ME

Tools

Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Gazebo

Job description

Xaira Therapeutics, Inc. is hiring a Robotics Systems & Simulation Engineer to bridge digital environments with physical robotics. You will own the simulation and digital-twin infrastructure, enabling vision-guided robots to adapt quickly to new instruments and test robotics control, perception, and embodied AI.

This on-site role spans software, 3D geometry, simulation, and hardware. You will collaborate with robotics, AI, software, and automation engineers to develop integrated systems from